Judge Clears the Way for New York Times Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft
#AI #OpenAI #Microsoft #AItraining #CopyrightLaw #GenAI #ChatGPT #MediaRights #AIlawsuit #NYTvOpenAI #AIethics #FairUse #AIlegal #TechLaw
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AI & COPYRIGHT 
Anthropic Scores Win in Music Lawsuit
Judge denies music publishers’ bid to block Anthropic from using song lyrics to train Claude. Court says publishers failed to show “irreparable harm.” UMG, Concord, ABKCO sued over use of lyrics from 500+ songs incl. Beyoncé & Rolling Stones. Fair use remains key unresolved legal issue in AI training cases.
Meta Reuploaded 30% of Pirated Books It Downloaded for AI Training, Participating in Digital Piracy
#AI #Meta #AITraining #MetaAI #Piracy #Copyright #GenAI #LLama #FairUse #Libgen
Anthropic has secured an early legal victory as a judge rejects Universal Music’s effort to stop AI training on song lyrics
#AI #CopyrightLaw #Anthropic #ClaudeAI #UniversalMusic #GenAI #FairUse #AIRegulation #MusicIndustry #AIvsCopyright
Thoughts: AI corps scraping data
The corporations assert that they can utilize public data without incurring any costs, citing fair use as their justification.
To address this issue, we should implement a law that compels corporations claiming fair use as a defense to make all their process data publicly available, free of charge. This would ensure that the scraped data, as well as data derived from the freely available data, is accessible to the public.
#AI #FairUse #Scraping #WebScraping
KI & freie Wissensprojekte: Wer profitiert, wer zahlt? 
Große #KI-Unternehmen nutzen Inhalte offener Projekte wie #Wikipedia profitabel, belasten aber deren Infrastruktur. Gefordert: faire Kompensation & klare Nutzungsregeln, um freies Wissen zu schützen. #OpenKnowledge #AIethics #FairUse
What's the difference between piracy and fair use?
Piracy
- you're poor, can't pay for all the shiny movies you want to watch, the good music you want to listen, the marvelous books you want to read and not available in libraries (because Trump&Co. burnt them)
- you illegally download a couple of them
- you even didn't had the time to watch/listen/read them
=> you're a f*cking criminal, because of you, the major won't be able to make as much as billion dollars of benefits as they want: go to jail and pay a hefty fine
Fair use
- you're insanely rich, like so much billions, you can literally buy some countries
- you illegally download hundred of thousand (if not thousand of thousand) of them
- you make it plagiarism and counterfeit that you can now sell for a high price
=> you're in a fair use case because you know, you need to do it before the Chinese do it otherwise they will make billions in place of you and it wouldn't be fair: get the law being adapted to your case and get a publicly funded subsidy
California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups And Cement A Big Tech AI Monopoly
Techdirt · California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups And Cement A Big Tech AI MonopolyCalifornia legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this migh…
"The AI landscape is in danger of being dominated by large companies with deep pockets. These big names are in the news almost daily. But they’re far from the only ones – there are dozens of AI companies with fewer than 10 employees trying to build something new in a particular niche.
This bill demands that creators of any AI model–even a two-person company or a hobbyist tinkering with a small software build– identify copyrighted materials used in training. That requirement will be incredibly onerous, even if limited just to works registered with the U.S. Copyright Office. The registration system is a cumbersome beast at best–neither machine-readable nor accessible, it’s more like a card catalog than a database–that doesn’t offer information sufficient to identify all authors of a work, much less help developers to reliably match works in a training set to works in the system.
Even for major tech companies, meeting these new obligations would be a daunting task. For a small startup, throwing on such an impossible requirement could be a death sentence. If A.B. 412 becomes law, these smaller players will be forced to devote scarce resources to an unworkable compliance regime instead of focusing on development and innovation. The risk of lawsuits—potentially from copyright trolls—would discourage new startups from even attempting to enter the field."
Electronic Frontier Foundation · California’s A.B. 412: A Bill That Could Crush Startups and Cement A Big Tech AI MonopolyCalifornia legislators have begun debating a bill (A.B. 412) that would require AI developers to track and disclose every registered copyrighted work used in AI training. At first glance, this might sound like a reasonable step toward transparency. But it’s an impossible standard that could crush...
If I record myself reading a copyrighted book and share the recording with some friends (for free), is that copyright infringement?
If so, can I claim fair use by, idk, dressing up in a funny outfit or something and turning the reading into a performance art piece, which I then record and share?
Is it copyright infringement to extract the audio from said recording of such a performance art piece and share that? There must be a legal way to do this...
Sam Altman asks #Trump to grant #OpenAI blanket permissions to steal everyone's copyrighted works so he can train his #AI. He raises the threat of China AI dominance as the bogeyman.
https://futurism.com/openai-over-copyrighted-work
#copyright #FairUse #AIhype #SamAltman
Futurism · OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work
OpenAI fordert "Freedom to Learn" für KI-Entwicklung
Plädiert für freien Zugang zu urheberrechtlich geschütztem Material
Verweist auf Chinas uneingeschränkten Datenzugriff
Betont nationale Sicherheitsaspekte
Jetzt lesen und folgen!
#ai #ki #artificialintelligence #kuenstlicheintelligenz #OpenAI #Copyright #China #FairUse
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Big Tech wants AI fair use… for them
OpenAI and Google are pushing the US to let them train AI on copyrighted material—framing it as a national security issue. Meanwhile, lawsuits mount. Who benefits from redefining 'fair use'? #AI #Copyright #FairUse
https://www.theverge.com/news/630079/openai-google-copyright-fair-use-exception
The Verge · OpenAI and Google ask the government to let them train AI on content they don’t own
Fair Use is about genuinely societal benefits, like quoting a paper for further research or parodying a song or celebrity. Strangely, Google and OpenAI seem to think that mere copying to enhance their profit margins should be on the same level.
#AI #copyright #fairuse
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/03/google-agrees-with-openai-that-copyright-has-no-place-in-ai-development/
Ars Technica · Google joins OpenAI in pushing feds to codify AI training as fair use
"Anyone at an AI company who stops to think for half a second should be able to recognize they have a vampiric relationship with the commons. While they rely on these repositories for their sustenance, their adversarial and disrespectful relationships with creators reduce the incentives for anyone to make their work publicly available going forward (freely licensed or otherwise). They drain resources from maintainers of those common repositories often without any compensation. They reduce the visibility of the original sources, leaving people unaware that they can or should contribute towards maintaining such valuable projects. AI companies should want a thriving open access ecosystem, ensuring that the models they trained on Wikipedia in 2020 can be continually expanded and updated. Even if AI companies don’t care about the benefit to the common good, it shouldn’t be hard for them to understand that by bleeding these projects dry, they are destroying their own food supply.
And yet many AI companies seem to give very little thought to this, seemingly looking only at the months in front of them rather than operating on years-long timescales. (Though perhaps anyone who has observed AI companies’ activities more generally will be unsurprised to see that they do not act as though they believe their businesses will be sustainable on the order of years.)
It would be very wise for these companies to immediately begin prioritizing the ongoing health of the commons, so that they do not wind up strangling their golden goose. It would also be very wise for the rest of us to not rely on AI companies to suddenly, miraculously come to their senses or develop a conscience en masse.
Instead, we must ensure that mechanisms are in place to force AI companies to engage with these repositories on their creators' terms."
https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/
Citation Needed · “Wait, not like that”: Free and open access in the age of generative AIThe real threat isn’t AI using open knowledge — it’s AI companies killing the projects that make knowledge free
OpenAI hat der Trump-Administration einen Vorschlag zur Nutzung urheberrechtlich geschützten Materials im Rahmen von Fair Use vorgelegt. Sie kritisieren EU- und UK-Regelungen und betonen die Notwendigkeit einer flexiblen Copyright-Politik, um im KI-Rennen mit China mithalten zu können. Die Unterstützung von Elon Musk und Co. zeigt einen Wandel im Silicon Valley hin zu konservativen Agenden. #OpenAI #FairUse #KI #Copyright #SiliconValley #Trump #TechPolicy #Innovation
OpenAI hat einen Vorschlag zur Nutzung urheberrechtlich geschützter Werke im Rahmen des Fair Use vorgelegt. Ziel: KI-Modelle wie ChatGPT lernen aus existierenden Werken, ohne die kommerzielle Verwertung zu beeinträchtigen. Kritik an geplanten EU- und UK-Regeln, die den Zugang zu Daten einschränken könnten. #KI #FairUse #OpenAI #Urheberrecht #Innovation #EU #UK #ChatGPT
Generative AI is great, sure, but it has fundamental problems that are almost as old as the Internet. The current USA administration might be the worst possible one to manage this problem.
https://giuseppevizzari.github.io/posts/2025/3/Sad-state-of-gen-ai
Viz's Homepage · The sad state of Generative AIGenerative AI is great, but it has fundamental problems that are almost as old as the Internet. The current USA administration might be the worst possible one to manage this problem.
#OpenAI declares #AI race “over” if #training on #copyrighted works isn’t fair use
OpenAI is hoping that Donald Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle #copyright debates by declaring #AItraining fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat #China in the AI race.
#fairuse #Trump
Ars Technica · OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use
"#OpenAI is hoping that Trump's AI Action Plan, due out this July, will settle copyright debates by declaring AI training fair use—paving the way for AI companies' unfettered access to training data that OpenAI claims is critical to defeat China in the AI race.
Currently, courts are mulling whether AI training is #fairuse, as rights holders say that AI models trained on creative works threaten to replace them in markets and water down humanity's creative output overall."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/openai-urges-trump-either-settle-ai-copyright-debate-or-lose-ai-race-to-china/
Ars Technica · OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use